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Vulnerability details: VCID-um4b-36qj-g7fm
Vulnerability ID VCID-um4b-36qj-g7fm
Aliases CVE-2024-45492
Summary An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for m_groupSize on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 4.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
System Score Found at
cvssv3 6.2 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-45492.json
epss 0.00225 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-45492
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cvssv3.1 6.2 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 7.3 https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/889
ssvc Track https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/889
cvssv3.1 7.3 https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/892
ssvc Track https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/892
cvssv3.1 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45492
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-45492.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/889
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-08-30T13:53:05Z/ Found at https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/889
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/892
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-08-30T13:53:05Z/ Found at https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/892
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45492
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.45234
EPSS Score 0.00225
Published At Aug. 4, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:31:18.656957+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.20/community.json 37.0.0